This paper investigates the money demand in Denmark in the period 1980-2002 using quarterly data. Within the framework of a cointegrated vector autoregression model an empirical long-run money demand relation is identified and analysed. Nominal money demand is shown to be a function of domestic...

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of central bank purchases of government bonds by investigating the following three questions: Under what conditions are these purchases socially desirable, what incentive problems do they mitigate, and how large are these...

Recent time-series evidence has re-confirmed the forecasting ability of Swiss broad money. The same money demand studies and others, however, find that the income elasticity is greater than one. Such parameter estimates are difficult to reconcile with transactions demand theory. This study...